{"id":5965,"date":"2019-03-14T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:41:41","slug":"recreating-a-ha-take-on-me-pigments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/recreating-a-ha-take-on-me-pigments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreating a-ha&#8217;s &#8220;Take On Me&#8221; with Arturia&#8217;s Pigments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>There are plenty of iconic synth sounds in a-ha\u2019s classic line-art-music-video-banger &#8220;Take On Me.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>A few days back, we walked through <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/recreating-radiohead-arturia-pigments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to recreate Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Everything In Its Right Place&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/recreating-toto-africa-arturia-pigments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toto&#8217;s &#8220;Africa&#8221;<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/plugins\/38677978-pigments-vst-au-by-arturia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturia&#8217;s Pigments.<\/a> Today, we&#8217;re back to show you how to create the earworm lead pluck sound in &#8220;Take On Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"How to Recreate A-ha&#039;s &quot;Take On Me&quot; Synth Lead | Arturia Pigments\" width=\"370\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cu7k8-sG8ec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once again, we\u2019re using the analog engine with a saw wave and two square waves to create a rich, bright harmonic texture to shape. Additionally, the movement of the filter cutoff is also doing the real work in this patch. Pigments really shines when creating sounds like these, as the multiple workflows for applying modulation allow the user to design timbrally interesting patches very quickly. 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